Significance_Of_Endings

Significance Of Endings The ending of a story, whether it is an anticipated or a surprise ending, is a crucial point in any story because it gives a final thought to a particular aspect in a story. What is expressed in the ending will determine what the reader will take away from the story and will always relate back to in the story. It has been suggested by Clark Blaise in his work “On Ending Stories”, that “most endings arise in the act or writing,” and that the writer does not have any intentions for the ending of his or her story. Some would argue the opposite and say that every writer has to have that power in order to write a good story. Most stories have anticipated endings, where they are foreshadowed throughout the story. A good example of an anticipated ending can be found in “The Husband” by Mary Dorcey, where foreshadowing is used in the very first line of the story and throughout the rest of the text. What is not as common and more likely to be planned, are surprise endings where the reader is led to believe an anticipated ending and then is surprised when the ending story, endings, reader, husband, ending, wife, land, james, surprise, pastorale, very, end, woman, sex, portrayed, one, love, foreshadowing, family, been, anticipated, man, made, detail, characters, being, because, another, about, title, throughout, thought, protect, point, patrick, opposite